Podochilus forficuloides J.J.Sm. 1922

Plant and Flowers in situ Sumatra Photos by © J.B.Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade CoolWinter

Common Name The Scissor-Like? Podochilus

Flower Size .07" [1.75 mm]

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1500 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a long and branching stem carrying many basally twisted, lanceolate, acute, long-apiculate leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, occasionally laterally, very short to .07" [2 mm], 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide;

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